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The NRC will appoint a study committee to conduct a consensus study in accordance with National Research Council procedures. The committee will first review current, projected, and planned U.S. national security space systems and architecture and receive briefings on known and projected threats to space systems vital to U.S. national security. The committee will then:

(1) Review the range of options available to address threats to space systems, in terms of deterring hostile actions, defeating hostile actions, and surviving hostile actions.

(2) Assess potential strategies and plans to counter such threats, including resilience, reconstitution, disaggregation, and other appropriate concepts.

(3) Assess existing and planned architectures, warfighter requirements, technology development, systems, workforce, or other factors related to addressing such threats.

(4) Recommend architectures, capabilities and courses of action to address such threats and actions to address affordability, technology risk, and other potential barriers or limiting factors in implementing such courses of action.

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Committee Membership Roster Comments

Note: Kurt R. Story resigned from the committee on February 10, 2015.

Sponsors

Department of Defense

Staff

Carter Ford

Lead

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